Crime Roundup: Drugs seized in Cork, Cigarettes seized at Dublin Port

Our crime roundup looks at seizures in Cork and at Dublin Port, and the news that two men arrested over the murder of David Boland in Kildare were released without charge on 10 November.

Drug Seizure Passage West, Cork 9th November, 2018
Two men were arrested and later released without charge on 10 November by Gardaí following the seizure of a quantity of drugs with an estimated street value of €180,000 in Cork City the day previous.

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Gardaí from the Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit searched two houses at Maulbaun Estate, Passage West, Cork on Friday 9th November, 2018. Gardaí said that during the course of the search ‘a quanity of cannabis resin, ecstasy tablets, cannabis herb and cocaine was seized along with some cash’.

The two men were released on Saturday evening and gardaí said a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions and that the investigation is ongoing.

Revenue officers said they seized 1,400 litres of wine, 76 litres of spirits and 7,780 cigarettes during a routine search in Dublin Port on Saturday 10 November.

The alcohol and cigarettes were discovered when officers stopped and searched a foreign registered bus and van that had disembarked a ferry from Holyhead, Wales.

Revenue said the products were concealed ‘within numerous unaccompanied packages being transported in the bus and van’ and that the seized alcohol and cigarettes have a combined retail value of €28,440.

Two men released without charge over David Boland murder

Gardaí investigating the murder of 34-year-old David Boland from Nurney, Co Kildare on 01 November said they arrested two men in Athy, Co Kildare on Friday 09 November. The men were later released without charge the following day. Gardaí said a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions and the investigation continues.

Gardaí were called to the scene of an incident on Duke Street, Athy, Co Kildare around 5.30am on 01 November. They found a 34-year-old man with ‘a number of apparent stab wounds’.

Gardaí said Mr Boland was treated at the scene and taken by Ambulance to the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, where he later died.

Gardaí investigating the death arrested, and later charged a 20-year-old man.

Calvin Cullen was charged with murdering Mr Boland at a special sitting of Naas District Court on 04 November.

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